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the howling and terrific ''destroyer of human passions and physical senses'', which are ever in the way of the development of the higher spiritual perceptions and the growth of the ''inner ''eternal man — mystically, * are the progeny of Siva, the ''Mahâyogi'', the great patron of all the Yogis and mystics of India. They themselves, being the “ Virgin-Ascetics,” refuse to create the ''material ''being man. Well may they be suspected of a direct connection with the Christian Archangel Michael, the “ Virgin Combatant ” of the Dragon ''Apophis'', whose victim is every soul united too loosely to its immortal Spirit, the Angel who, as shown by the Gnostics, ''refused to create ''just as the Kumâras did. (''See Book II.'', “ ''The Mystic Dragons and their Slayers.''” ) . . . Does not that patron-Angel of the Jews ''preside ''over Saturn (Siva or Rudra), and the Sabbath, the day of Saturn ? Is he not shown of the same essence with his father (Saturn), and called the “ Son of Time,” ''Kronos'', ''or Kâla ''(time), a form of Brahmâ (Vishnu and Siva) ? ” And is not “ Old Time ” of the Greeks, with its scythe and sand-glass, identical with the “ Ancient of Days ” of the Kabalists ; the latter “ Ancient ” being one with the Hindu “ Ancient of Days,” Brahmâ (in his ''triune ''form), whose name is also “ Sanat,” the Ancient ? Every Kumâra bears the prefix of ''Sanat ''and ''Sana ; ''and Sanaischara is Saturn, the planet (Sani and Sarra), the King Saturn whose Secretary in Egypt was Thot-Hermes the first. They are thus identified both with the planet and the god (Siva), who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of Saturn, who is the same as Bel, Baal, Siva, and Jehovah Sabbaoth, ''The angel of whose face is'' {{Style S-Small capitals|Mikael}} ( {{Style S-Hebrew|מיבַאֶל}} “ who is as God ”). He is the patron, and guardian Angel of the Jews, as Daniel tells us (v. 21) ; and, before the Kumâras were degraded, by those who were ignorant of their very name, into demons and fallen angels, the Greek Ophites, the occultly inclined predecessors and precursors of the Roman Catholic Church after its secession and separation from the primitive Greek Church, had identified Michael with their ''Ophiomorphos'', the rebellious and opposing spirit. This means nothing more than the reverse aspect (symbolically) of Ophis — divine Wisdom or Christos. In the ''Talmud'', ''Mikael ''(Michael) is “ Prince of ''Water ”'' and the chief of the seven Spirits, for the same reason that his prototype (among many others) Sanat-Sujâta,